THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

IN STREET SALUZZO A PLAQUE IN MEMORY OF MARIO MOLINARI

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Torino | 03 March 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

[…] The red seeks the green, the sunsets take on the role of aurora and, seen from the other side, the suns regenerate the suns that give you the twentytwo thousand rays of their calorific knowledge.. […].
Mario Molinari

On the morning of Friday, March 9th, the plaque commemorating Mario Molinari, a surrealist painter and cultor, was discovered in street Saluzzo 56, who had his own studio and home in this street. To remember him, with his wife Pia and his sons Jacopo and William, the Councilor for Culture of the City of Turin, Maurizio Braccialarga, the President of the City Council, Giovanni Maria Ferraris, representing the mayor Piero Fassino, the president of the Circumscription 8 Mario Cornelio Levi and above all many friends. In his speech, Levi expressed the desire to see one of the works of the great master who died in 2000 set in the San Salvario district.

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EIGHTH EDITION OF SUMMER SCHOOL PROCIDA “CULTURAL ENTERPRISE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. HISTORIANS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. TODAY”

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Procida | 30 September 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

It took place in Procida – in the Conservatory of the Orphans, home of the University of Naples L’Orientale - the Eighth Annual Summer School Procida “Cultural Enterprise in the Mediterranean. Historians and the Mediterranean. Today”.
With it has initiated a series of seminars and workshops held by scholars and historians from various disciplines and international prestige, on topics relating to the history of the Mediterranean. The story, that is, a space in which people are accustomed to live collective lives and to meet and clash, to get lost and find themselves, stratifying and composing.
The speakers were: Michele Capasso, president of Fondazione Mediterraneo, Maurice Aymard, Conservatory of Orphans, Caterina de Vivo, an expert in the management of environmental and cultural heritage in marine protected areas in the Mediterranean.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE EUROMESCO NETWORK

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Parigi | 03 October 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Annual General and Extraordinary Meeting of the “Euromesco” network of international politics institutes took place at the Paris.

On that occasion, the Activities Report was discussed and approved as was the Report on the Action Plan for 2013-2014. Prof. Bichara Khader was confirmed as President of the Steering Committee, Director of the Centre of Studies and Research on the Contemporary Arab World (Belgium) and member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been a member of Euromesco since 2006 and attended the Assembly thanks to the participation of it's President Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari, who suggested drafting a summary weekly Newsletter – with one page in English, one in French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese, respectively to be disseminated worldwide.

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LAMPEDUSA: APPEAL TO EUROPE CONSCIENCE

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Vilnius | 04 October 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In occasion of the meeting of Union for Mediterranean, at the presence of general secretary of UPM Fatallah Sijilmassi, high functionaries of European Union, and ambassadors of 43 Euromediterranean countries, president Michele Capasso renewed the Appeal for Lampedusa and his refugees, launched by Fondazione Mediterraneo on the 8 july 2013, in occasion of the visit of Francis Pope to the island.
The appeal sadly recalled the tragedy happened once again for the lackness of a clear European policy about migration and refugees right.

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LAMPEDUSA, SHAME OF EUROPE

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Lampedusa | 09 October 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In visit at Lampedusa, in the aftermath of the massacre which has been cause of 300 deads, the Prime Minister Letta, the president of  European Commission Barroso, Ministry Alfano and European Commissioner Malmström, promised the intervention of Europe in order to avoid similar tragedies. "It is never too late" – declared President Capasso which Fondazione Mediterraneo for years warned about refugees unbearable situation, launching a new appeal on 8 July 2013 in occasion of Francis Pope’s visit.

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